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Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don’t say, even today. And 1970s America loved her for it. According to Mrs. Ford, her young adult children probably had smoked marijuana – and if she were their age, she’d try it, too. She told “60 Minutes” she wouldn’t be surprised to learn that her youngest, 18-year-old Susan, was in a ...

The number of new jobs created in the US in June was the lowest in nine months, dousing hopes the economy would regain momentum, according to new economic data. Only 18,000 new jobs were created in the month, well below economist’s expectations for a 90,000 rise, the labour department said on Friday. Barack…

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police sealed off parts of the capital on Saturday in a bid to thwart a protest aimed at igniting an uprising against Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government similar to the revolutions in the Middle East. Police set up roadblocks in the city center and trucks mounted with water cannons were deployed to prevent the demonstration, ...

BEIRUT — Hundreds of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets of the opposition stronghold Hama on Friday, bolstered by a gesture of support from the American and French ambassadors who visited the city where a massacre nearly 30 years ago came to symbolize the ruthlessness of the Assad dynasty. The visit by U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford drew swift condemnation ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s former communications chief was arrested Friday over allegations of phone hacking celebrities and murder victims and bribing police for information during his time as editor of scandal-sunk News of the World tabloid. Cameron acted to distance himself from a crisis knocking at the door of 10 Downing St., acknowledging that British politicians and the press ...

Japan’s prime minister has apologised for causing confusion by ordering nuclear firms to carry out safety tests on their reactors, weeks after his government said the plants were safe. Naoto Kan said his order for “stress…

Egypt is braced for mass demonstrations after opposition activists called for a million-person protest on Friday. Thousands of protesters have begun gathering in Cairo’s Tahrir Square – focus of February’s…

LONDON – Rupert Murdoch will shut down Britain’s biggest selling Sunday newspaper, the News of the World, in a startling response to a scandal engulfing his media empire. As allegations multiplied that its journalists hacked the voicemails of thousands of people, from child murder victims to the families of Britain’s war dead, the tabloid hemorrhaged advertising, alienated millions of readers ...

Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Would Muslim women add valuable insight and sensitivities as judicial officers, and would their perceptions and insights on law and justice benefit Shari’ah courts? These two questions came to mind when the Nairobi Star reported that some Kenyan Muslim leaders, imams and councils were upset over the possible appointment of female Muslim judicial officers, ...

DANIEL McLAUGHLIN A PERSONAL photographer for Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has been arrested on espionage charges along with his wife and two colleagues, in what appears to be the latest move by Georgian authorities against an alleged Russian spy network. The four were arrested early yesterday by security service agents who also took cameras, computers and memory cards…